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present the numbers and percentage distributions of children and youths who received a CDR or age-18 redetermination between …
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The National Population Policy (2000) aims at complete protection of all children against vaccine preventable diseases … the children aged 12-23 months in urban India are fully immunized; coverage among urban poor children is a dismal 43%. The … challenges in improving immunization coverage in urban slums; immunization being one of the most successful public health …
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We estimate the effect of welfare reform on the intergenerational transmission of welfare participation and related economic outcomes using a long panel of mother-daughter pairs over the survey period 1968–2013 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Because states implemented welfare reform at...
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Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of...
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We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … health, higher employment, and longer working hours. We estimate a Heckman selection model for employment and hours worked. A … that employment was associated with better mental health for all women. Higher job hours were associated with lower mental …
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Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making welfare receipt conditional on participation in an activation program for all welfare recipients...
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versus the former system on mental health. Groups with fewer insurance possibilities - single adults and lone parents … - experience a mental health deterioration of 8.4-13.9% sd. For couples, UC partially or fully mitigates mental health consequences …
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-income parents and the intergenerational impacts on their children. We focus on welfare policies that change benefit levels, activity … requirements, time-limits and inwork benefits. These policies may affect children through several mechanisms, including changes in … net effects of these policies, we assess how the impact on children varies across outcomes, home environments and …
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. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …
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. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …
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